Every Love Lasts by Ma Yujiang, CHUBB Life
A tale of time and love, contemporary artist Ma Yujiang’s captures his story in a series of artworks that see the depicted boy grow up canvas by canvas while the woman remains unchanged. Ma’s mother passed away at the tender age of 27 when he was only 3. Since then, he’s painted a portrait of them every year in her memory. The only photo that remains of the pair captures Ma as a toddler, secured in his Mom’s embrace.
When: until April 6, 2025
Where: 35/F, Chubb Tower, Windsor House, Causeway Bay
Birth of Poetry Group Exhibition, The Shophouse
The Shophouse presents Birth of Poetry, a group exhibition by artists Chen Jinbin, Ted Gahl, Han Mengyun, Joy Li, Shi Zheng, and Zhang Ji that explores the relationship between poetry and different aspects of life.
Where: 4 Second Lane, Tai Hang, Hong Kong (Open by appointment)
When: Mar 22, 2025-May 11, 2025
Beauty and Gesture by Laurent Perbos, Swire Properties
French contemporary artist Laurent Perbos reimagines the renowned Greek sculpture Venus de Milo through 6 sculptural installations on show in Pacific Place’s Park Court. Commissioned for the 2024 Paris Olympics, each sculpture in the series is tied to a specific Olympic sport.
When: until August 15, 2025
Where: Park Court, Level 1, Pacific Place
Yoan Capote: Mixed Feelings by Yoan Capote, Ben Brown Fine Arts
Isla (Galerna), 2024, Oil, nails and fishhooks on linen panel on plywood, 120 x 180 cm. (47 1/4 x 70 7/8 in.)
Photo: Yoan Capote
Cuban artist Yoan Capote intertwines the Cuban landscape with the country’s turbulent socio-political history in his evocative new works. The exhibition explores dualities of “love and disillusionment, belonging and estrangement, hope and despair”. Capote’s meditations on living on the threshold of self-governance possess a universal resonance as tensions of contested identities and political uncertainty grow evermore serious in the world today.
When: Mar 22, 2025-June 31, 2025
Where: 201, The Factory, 1 Yip Fat St, Wong Chuk Hang
Soft Landscape by Louise Bourgeois, Hauser & Wirth
Untitled,1993, Painted wood and fabric wall relief, 57.2 × 89.5 cm / 22 1/2 × 35 1/4 in
Photo: Sarah Muehlbauer
Hailed as one of the most important artists of the past century, Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and worked in New York from 1938 until her death in 2010. During those decades of creation, the creative process was her form of catharsis. According to Hauser & Wirth, she “reconstructed memories and emotions to free herself from their grasp.” On March 25, works by Bourgeois will be displayed in her second solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong, including a selection of sculptures and works on paper that have never been exhibited before. Additionally, a three-meter-long fountain installation titled ‘Mamelles (fountain)’ (1991), and a steel and marble sculpture titled ‘Spider’ (2000), will be shown in Asia for the first time.
When: March 25, 2025-June 21, 2025
Where: G/F, 8 Queen’s Road Central, Central
Emma McIntyre: Among My Swan by Emma McIntyre, David Zwirner
Emma McIntyre, White chalk south against time, 2024 (detail)
Photo: David Zwirner
New Zealand-born and Los Angeles-based artist Emma McIntyre works with the element of chance. She paints by pouring pigments from above, followed by layers of spontaneous mark-making, creating works that are partially up to the artist and partially up to the organic proclivity of her chosen material. For Among my swan, McIntyre’s first solo exhibition in Asia, the artist presents vivid and abstract landscape paintings made with oils and unconventional substances like oxidised iron. “Painting, like a stage set, is worldbuilding in a contained space. I’ve long been interested in painting’s connection to theatre,” McIntyre says in a press release, “Theatre also relates to my interest in truth and deception in painting. Suspension of disbelief, a “higher being” as guide, painting as a kind of magic—which in turn relates to alchemy.
When: Mar 25, 2025-May 10, 2025
Where: 5–6/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central
Souveniers, Novelties, Party Tricks by Joe Foti, JPS Gallery
Joe Foti’s Souveniers, Novelties, Party Tricks exhibition cannot be understood simply through photos on the Internet. Foti’s artwork demands closer looking, it pulls you in through its complicated details, or plainly because you’re compelled to ask, “What am I looking at???” (3 question marks necessary). At Chrome Hearts, Foti created 12 skull-headed characters each with names, idiosyncrasies and backstories. Among them, Skippy, a “lovestruck pool hustler”, stands as a two-meter sculpture under a constellation of 20 birdhouses in the gallery space. Others are littered across his multi-media works, waiting for visitors to uncover.
When: until April 26, 2025
Where: G/F, 88 – 90 Staunton Street, Central
Kinsman x JPS Gallery
After checking out the art pieces at JPS Gallery, sit back at Central’s leading Cantonese bar Kinsman for cocktails inspired by Foti’s works. To echo the artist’s rabbit statuette, the Kinsman team reimagined the New York sour with a White Rabbit candy-infused N.I.P gin.
Where: 65 Peel St, Central
HK Walls Festival
HK Walls returns for its 10th edition! Murals painted by international and local artists will be dotted all across Central and the Western District. The 9-day festival includes a packed schedule of programmes including special screenings, panels, tours and a new exhibition initiative titled HKWALLS ROOMS which spotlights other galleries and artists in addition to mural artists.
When: until March 30, 2025
Where: PMQ Courtyard, 25 Aberdeen Street
Spring is Blooming by Alexandre Benjamin Navet and Van Cleef & Arpels
Van Cleef & Arpels collaborates with French artist Alexandre Benjamin Navet to transform Tai Kwun’s Parade Ground into a whimsical playground. Drawing inspiration from the brand’s treasured archives, Navet creates an immersive art installation featuring his signature pastel illustrations. Upon entering the venue, guests are enveloped by a vibrant world filled with delightful surprises. They can wander through poetic floral arches, relax on airy swings, and gaze upon serene pavilions and fountains, all while experiencing the invigorating essence of spring.
When: until April 6, 2025
Where: 10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong
Blooming Shields at LPM x Pearl Lam Galleries
French Riviera-inspired restaurant La Petite Maison partners with Pearl Lam Galleries to showcase the vibrant works of Nigerian artist Ayobola Kekere-Ekun. The artist employs a quilling technique—the shaping of paper strips—to create portraits, flowers, and butterflies that exude strength despite their vulnerable appearance. To complement Kekere-Ekun’s floral artworks, LPM has created a limited-time elderflower cocktail and a rum baba dessert with strawberry and coconut cream.
When: until April 16, 2025
Where: H Queen’s, 23-29 Stanley Street, Central
Upward by Huang Yulong, Great Entertainment Group (GEG) and the Hong Kong Observation Wheel & AIA Vitality Park
Beijing-based sculptor Huang Yulong has brought more than 20 sculptures, each over 3m high, to the Central Harbourfront space in front of the Hong Kong Observation Wheel. The towering hooded sculptures pay homage to street culture and express optimism for the future.
When: until March 31, 2025
Where: The Hong Kong Observation Wheel and AIA Vitality Park, Central Harbourfront, 33 Man Kwong Street, Central
The Lobster Painter by Philip Colbert, K11 MUSEA
Against Hong Kong’s stunning skyline, Phillip Colbert’s The Lobster Painter stands as a striking 7.5-metre-high sculpture that adds a splash to the promenade. “I became an artist when I became a Lobster,” Colbert said.
When: March 26, 2025-May 13, 2025
Where: GF, Promenade, K11 MUSEA
Once Lost Now Found by Liao Jiaming and Aaron Lan Kwok Yam, The Mondrian
Hong Kong artists Liao Jiaming and Aaron Lan Kwok Yam ponder memory, identity, and the search for meaning through past works and newly commissioned pieces displayed at The Corner Shop and The Mondrian’s Roofgarden. The Corner Shop is Mondrian Hong Kong’s street-level space built for cultural events and artistic pop-ups like this one.
When: until May 4, 2025
Where: The Corner Shop, 11A-11D Hart Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui & Roofgarden, Mondrian Hong Kong, 8A Hart Ave, Tsim Sha Tsui
Lunar Rainbow by Phoebe Hui, The Peninsula
Phoebe Hui is a Hong Kong media artist and researcher exploring interdisciplinary ideas drawn from the philosophy of science, astronomy and machine learning. As part of Peninsula Hong Kong’s ‘Art in Resonance’ programme, she has created her largest installation titled Lunar Rainbow. The monumental moon installation on the hotel’s iconic façade is pieced together by 49 discrete pieces, forming a celestial spectacle that symbolises resilience and hope.
When: until May 4, 2025
Where: The Peninsula Hong Kong, Salisbury Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui
Lee Mingwei: Guernica in Sand by Lee Mingwei, M+
Lee Mingwei, Lee Mingwei: Guernica in Sand , 2025
Photo: Dan Leung, courtesy of M+, Hong Kong
Internationally recognised artist Lee Mingwei brings Guernica in Sand to Hong Kong, a massive recreation of Pablo Picasso’s iconic Cubist work Guernica (1937) using sand as the material. Sand paintings often embody impermanence and change, Lee uses this unexpected material to echo the painting’s theme of violence and tragedy brought by the Spanish Civil War which Picasso experienced. On June 28, towards the end of the display, Lee will stage a live performance where he and other performers will complete the final part of the work while visitors walk on the sand. The performers will then sweep away the sand once the visitors have blurred the image completely. “Through the participatory act of walking on and sweeping away the sand painting, I hope to create a shared experience that transforms our understanding of loss and renewal, revealing how transformation can emerge from the ruins of history,” Lee says.
When: until July 13, 2025
Where: West Gallery
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia—A Conversation, M+
Pablo Picasso, Dead Birds , 1912, oil on canvas.
Photo: Courtesy of Photographic Archives Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
More than 60 masterpieces by Picasso will be displayed alongside around 130 pieces from the M+ collection by 30 Asian and Asian-diasporic artists, creating a dialogue between Picasso and Asia. This will be the first major exhibition on Picasso in Hong Kong in more than a decade, and it promises to offer a fresh perspective on Picasso’s legacy.
When: until July 13, 2025
Where: West Gallery, L2
Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World Of ASMR, Gate 33 Gallery
Photo: @designmuseum and @airsidehk_gate33 via Instagram
Have you ever dreamt of an exhibition that facilitates your cosy afternoon nap? GATE33 Gallery presents Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World Of ASMR, an immersive multi-sensory exhibition featuring over 40 works by ASMRtists. ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) is known to be a physical sensation of deep calm— think the sound of bristles brushing against a microphone, or the sound of soap lathered over a puppy’s coat—drawing sensations like “tingling” in the body. At the heart of the exhibition is the “ASMR Arena” built from over a kilometer of woven pillow, but don’t forget to check out the dim Bob Ross room featuring his original works and those iconic videos.
When: until July 13, 2025
Where: GATE33 Gallery, Shop 312, Airside, 2 Concorde Rd, Kowloon Cit
Lining Revealed – A Journey Through Folk Wisdom and Contemporary Vision Group Exhibition, CHAT
Aziza Shadenova, Dastarkhan (Her Skirt) , 2024 Quilted fabric, cotton and wallpaper
Photo: @aziza_shaden via Instagram
Curator Wang Weiwei brings together 13 artists from around Asia for an immensely rich exhibition on folk wisdom and its ties to contemporary art. The exhibition starts with Indonesian artist Ari Bayuaji’s colourful oceanic weaves in the Mill’s main hall, followed by artist Young In Hong’s new “community” of 5 animals on the second floor. Then, visitors lace through strawwork, beadwork, and embroidery, as well as patchwork quilts of nomadic tribes to silkscreen prints of agrarian island communities. The last stop showcases the works of artist Elle Yiu who employs humour in her artworks to face the heaviness of illness, healing, and identity.
When: until July 13, 2025
Where: 2/F, The Mills 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan
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Karrie Lam
